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4) Chez moi
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Forty-something Myriam tries to capitalize on her cooking expertise by opening up a restaurant, but she has no idea how to run a business.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Leadership, an imprint of HarperCollins Focus LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The CEO of Founders Space, one of the world's leading startup incubators and accelerators, prepares entrepreneurs to avoid disastrous mistakes, surmount sizable obstacles, and master the skills necessary to make the right choices along their path to success.
The fact is, over 90 percent of all new startups fail. Every entrepreneur must face this harsh reality and learn to master it if they hope to survive and wind up on top.
In Surviving a Startup,...
Author
Publisher
Crown Business
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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"Most startups are built to fail. But those failures, according to entrepreneur Eric Ries, are preventable. Startups don't fail because of bad execution, or missed deadlines, or blown budgets. They fail because they are building something nobody wants. Whether they arise from someone's garage or are created within a mature Fortune 500 organization, new ventures, by definition, are designed to create new products or services under conditions of extreme...
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English
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Most entrepreneurs have had to learn things the hard way--concepts such as: big ideas rarely make great businesses; laboring on a business plan can be a waste of time; and you will need dramatically more start-up money than you originally thought you did. But Len Green, an experienced investor, entrepreneur, and business professor, has encapsulated together all the inside secrets, proven strategies, and mistakes experienced so that you can learn it...
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Publisher
Out Of Your Mind . . . And Into The Mark
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A business classic that has been guiding new entrepreneurs through the process of launching their businesses for more than a quarter of a century, this book has now been revised to feature the most up-to-date information, forms, examples, and worksheets. It emphasizes all of the mechanics of the start-up, including choosing a business, legal structure, location, and DBAs. Additional chapters cover home-based business, proprietary rights, financing...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Andrew Ward, who has been covering the growing cannabis industry for over a decade, shares the vast stretch of potential careers. In addition to job opportunities, Ward also supplies career growth, salaries, and first-hand knowledge from professionals who have made a career in the field. But with any industry there are pros and cons. While the market is expanding, every profession has growing pains, and Ward explains them in detail. In addition to...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Tossed is a new salad bar chain set up by twenty-something entrepreneur Vincent McKevitt in the teeth of catastrophic economic conditions. Will the credit crunch make or break his new business? The entrepreneur: Vincent started young - selling ice cubes to his sisters! He funded his new business with loans from friends, family - anywhere he could get the money. Against the odds, Tossed opens a new store at London's Baker Street - on time. Branding:...
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Publisher
Mango Media / Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"They don't teach these principles in business school. These lessons can only come from the entrepreneurial book of life." -- Kevin Cope, author of the #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller Seeing the Big Picture What is the "entrepreneur's paradox"? Curtis Morley explains that the exact qualities that aid an individual in founding a startup company -- brilliance and expertise -- are what prevent them from realizing expected success. What starts as freedom...
16) The small business owner's manual: everything you need to know to start up and run your business
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Language
English
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An Owner's Manual provides fast, practical, and direct advice and that's what you get with this book! The Small Business Owner's Manual is useful for newly minted entrepreneurs as well as seasoned business owners and can be read from cover-to-cover or to quickly look up information in the midst of a crisis. For example:
• Choose among 13 ways to get new financing and the 17 steps to building a winning loan package.
• Weigh the pros and cons among...
Author
Publisher
G&D Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"This energizing, entertaining, yet practical guide will launch you into an entrepreneurial career that will immediately make your life – as well as those around you better. Most people are not able to make the practical connection from observing their community and the world around them to what a great business idea looks like. They need a blueprint...not only an idea of what kind of business to start, but tips and techniques on how to make it...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Hardcore Inventing offers the advice you can only learn from someone with experience: how to develop an idea into an invention, how to build a prototype, how to safeguard intellectual property, how to market both strategically, how to find investors, and much more. He takes everything an inventor or entrepreneur needs and presents it as part of his IP3 "Tactical Method" which breaks everything down into "Invent, Protect, Promote, and Profit." With...
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Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Most small business guides claim to be for entrepreneurs, but either talk over their heads or treat them like they have no business savvy. The solution? Business for Beginners. Written by an entrepreneur, it targets the 13 big questions (and all the other questions that come with) that entrepreneurs need to consider to build a successful business, with the answers that will set them on the right track. Frances McGuckin and SmallBizPro are dedicated...
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